Cloudcroft News

As Cloudcroft Municipal Schools nears the end of the school year, the board of education approved a preliminary 2013-14 operational budget for submission to the New Mexico Public Education Department.

A Clint man who had been missing for a week has returned home, prompting a Silver Alert to be canceled.

Today the New Mexico Rails-to-Trails Association continues to explore the Sacramento Mountains railroad trails that have since been abandoned in hopes of converting them into multi-use and multi-access recreational trails.

Sometimes someone becomes a symbol, sometimes a symbol finds a representative - as was the case when a little black bear was rescued from the Capitan Gap Fire 63 years ago, later to become the national symbol of fire prevention, Smokey Bear, until his death in 1976.

The Sacramento Ranger District will open the U.S. Forest Service slash pit near Cloudcroft to accommodate private landowners who need to dispose of slash.